Today's Auto News

If you are a young male who has not long passed his driving test and you are hoping to purchase an expensive sporty car, then be prepared for a shock. You might be asked to pay several thousand pounds just for third party insurance. According to insurance companies, young male drivers are very high risk, especially when they are driving fast cars. Statistics bear this out too. As a rule of thumb, one in eight of all drivers (male and female) who hold a full driving licence are aged 25 or younger. However when you look at road fatalities, one in three driver deaths occur to drivers in that age group. Comparing age groups: a forty eight year old driver in only one third as likely as an eighteen year old driver to be involved in a car accident and twenty percent of new drivers are ...

There is no doubt that automobile companies today are more interested in providing better driving experience to the consumers rather than just thinking about the design and performance of the car. This is what OnStar, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors does. The company provides safety, security and better mobility solutions that General Motors normally incorporated in their vehicles. OnStar has now announced that they have received more than 439 million interactions for their new apps and services that they have launched. The company said that in the last 16 years they have managed to take 191,000 Automatic Crash Response calls. The company also claimed that they have assisted more than 94 million turn-by-turn routes, more than 1 million Emergency Services delivered. OnStar...

The city of New York will soon witness a new revolution in the field of automobiles when Nissan will launch its new 2014 Nissan NV200 taxi as the next generation taxi for tomorrow. The stage is all set for 2014 Nissan NV200 taxi which, after winning the competition last year, has officially bagged the award Nissan New York City Taxi of Tomorrow. The taxi will start plying from the end of 2013 and is expected to serve as many as 600,000 passengers daily. The iconic model has been the result of enormous effort that has been put into the making of this car. The design of the car, the unique and attractive yellow color, interior decoration has all been possible because of the innovative ideas and feedback from thousands of taxi-owners and drivers. The make of the 2014 Nissan NV200 taxi w...

One of the more popular tools modern cars are being equipped with are GPS devices or satellite navigation systems. It is widely known that such devices can pinpoint the location of the device on the globe to within a few feet. With this type of accurate location measurement, it would seem that the tool should be a fool proof navigation device, yet many claim that they are unreliable. So what is the truth? Within certain parameters, satellite navigation devices are extremely accurate. For example: Harold has a satellite navigation system installed at his Honda Lincoln service location. His intention is to take a road trip to a location two hundred miles away. Keying in the his destination, the navigation system calculates a course for him complete with an estimated time of arrival. Fo...

While most car companies are looking forward to launch new cars that can help them establish more consumers in the market, BMW Classic is looking forward to come up with better classic cars that can help consumers to keep their classic cars in shape. Recently, BMW Classic has commissioned the company to re-manufacture gear wheel kits for original Hurth gearbox that is installed in BMW 328. BMW Classic is seriously looking forward to keep their heritage cars alive and this will be their step to ensure that consumers that have used their classic cars are able to maintain it. As per the information available, BMW Classic has already commissioned automotive part supplier ZF Friedrichshafen AG to provide the solution to this gearbox. The company is well known as gearbox specialist and...

Car companies in the United States are always interested in coming up with better ideas that they can experiment. Hence, Volkswagen has now announced that they have launched a pilot scheme where they will monitor twenty prototype E-Golf Battery Electric Vehicles for nine months to see if they really work. Many car companies are now trying to step in the future with electric vehicles and Volkswagen is one of them. The new pilot scheme that they have announced will be available in various locations in the United States and it was announced that 12 vehicles will be provided to the VW employees for testing phase. Volkswagen is trying to check various factors that can ruin the driving experience and therefore they would like to test their EV technology before they launch it in the market....

Lexus has been instrumental in the industry of automobiles. This fact is now supported by statistics. A CSI study reveals that the car manufacturing company stands on the pole positing when it comes to customer satisfaction. The achievement has been repeated by the company for the fourth consecutive year. When put to test, Lexus scored 861 points out of a total of 1000 CSI. The score is 15 points more than any other car manufacturing company in any segment. For the outside world, the company is famous for manufacturing high end cars that mean performance. But for all those who own a Lexus, they know that the customer satisfaction is way too better than the performance or any other parameter. All the leading personnel of the company bestow this achievement up on the dealers, saying th...